U.S. officials from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have lifted the stop-work order for Equinor’s Empire Wind project, offshore New York. “I would like to thank President Trump for finding a solution that provides for continued investments in energy infrastructure in the U.S.,” said Anders Opedal, President and CEO of Equinor ASA. SourceContinue Reading
Venezuela released an American citizen on the same day the U.S. was set to give Chevron another 60-day waiver to operate in the country, part of a push by President Nicolas Maduro’s government and the Trump administration to improve ties. SourceContinue Reading
Leaders from the American Petroleum Institute and National Ocean Industries Association today voiced their support of the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service’s release of a new biological opinion for the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico. SourceContinue Reading
Law firm Haynes Boone defended The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), now known as Renaissance Africa Energy Company (RAEC), against a $58 million lawsuit, securing a complete dismissal in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. SourceContinue Reading
SLB has launched Retina™ at-bit imaging, a first-of-its-kind solution which enables identification of formation characteristics. Retina addresses the limitations of traditional imagers, which are often restricted by operational factors like drilling fluid type and wellbore damage, SLB stated. SourceContinue Reading
U.S. officials from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have lifted the stop-work order for Equinor’s Empire Wind project, offshore New York. “I would like to thank President Trump for finding a solution that provides for continued investments in energy infrastructure in the U.S.,” said Anders Opedal, President and CEO of Equinor ASA. SourceContinue Reading
The Railroad Commission of Texas recently trained more than 300 employees in Phase I of the agency’s Boots on the Ground initiative. The goal of the program is to bring more consistency across all the agency’s oil and gas districts. SourceContinue Reading
TDI-Brooks has recently finalized a geological evaluation in the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico on behalf of Enbridge. For this project, TDI-Brooks utilized the R/V BROOKS MCCALL, executing 38 piston cores (PC), 7 gravity cone penetration tests (gCPTs), and 82 box cores (BC). SourceContinue Reading
ABS issued an approval in principle (AIP) to Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) for its design of a multi-purpose LNG floating facility for deep water. Called MLF-O, the design from SHI optimizes the production facility for deepwater areas with a wave height of nine meters. SourceContinue Reading
Sable Offshore has restarted production at the Santa Ynez Unit (SYU), offshore California, marking a major milestone for the development once owned by ExxonMobil. The Santa Ynez Unit was previously shut down in May 2015 after facing regulatory hurdles and a pipeline leak. SourceContinue Reading
